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Falstaff | The comic opera of Giuseppe Verdi | Greek National Opera

The Greek National Opera presents an ambitious new production of the comic opera Falstaff, from 26 January 2023 and for six performances inside the Stavros Niarchos Hall at the SNFCC. Giuseppe Verdi’s swan song, based on the Shakespeare comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor, is being conducted by Pier Giorgio Morandi and directed by the acclaimed director, and Artistic Director of the UK’s renowned Glyndebourne Opera Festival, Stephen Langridge. Performing the title role is the outstanding Greek baritone Dimitri Platanias. This production is made possible by a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) to enhance the GNO’s artistic outreach. Central to the action is the washed-up old knight Sir John Falstaff, whose romantic misadventures make him a laughingstock in the provincial society of his small town. In the end, after a series of tragicomic situations have unfolded, all the work’s characters sing the following refrain together: “All the world’s a jest… but whoever laughs last, laughs best.” The production is being staged by the eminent director Stephen Langridge, who is returning to the GNO –following his successful staging of Carmen at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus– to create this outgoing, light-hearted, and wonderfully entertaining new production. Langridge, who was appointed Artistic Director of the UK’s renowned Glyndebourne Opera Festival in 2019, shifts the setting of Falstaff’s story to 1930s England, to a time dominated by the absurdity of a social hierarchy that bordered on feudalism. Opera • New production Falstaff Giuseppe Verdi 26, 29 January & 1, 4, 7, 10 February 2023 Starts at: 19.30 (Sunday at 18.30) Stavros Niarchos Hall of the Greek National Opera – SNFCC Conductor: Pier Giorgio Morandi Director: Stephen Langridge Sets, costumes: George Souglides Movement director: Dan O’Neill Lighting: Peter Mumford Chorus master: Agathangelos Georgakatos Children’s chorus mistress: Konstantina Pitsiakou Sir John Falstaff: Dimitri Platanias Ford: Tassis Christoyannis Fenton: Vassilis Kavayas Dr Caius: Nicholas Stefanou Bardolfo: Yannis Kalyvas Pistola: Yanni Yannissis Alice Ford: Cellia Costea Nannetta: Marilena Striftobola Mistress Quickly: Anna Agathonos Meg Page: Chrysanthi Spitadi With the Orchestra, Chorus, and Children’s Chorus of the Greek National Opera (as part of its educational mission) https://www.nationalopera.gr/en/stavr... Tickets: €15, €20, €35, €40, €55, €65, €70, €100 | Students, children: €15 | Restricted view seating: €10 Advance bookings: the GNO Box Office (+30 2130885700, 9.00-21.00 daily) & www.ticketservices.gr/en Production sponsor: ALPHA BANK Lead Donor of the GNO & Production donor: Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) #GiuseppeVerdi #falstaff #comicopera #greeknationalopera